Table 5.
Reliability and validity of the LT-SATAQ-4 (the Lithuanian student sample I = 1850).
| LT-SATAQ-4 Subscales | Test-Retest Reliability (ICC) | Cronbach’s α | Inter-Item Correlation * | Divergent Validity ** | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Men | Women | Men | Women | Men | Women | |||
| Internalization subscales: | Thin/Low Body Fat | 0.89 | 0.870 | 0.914 | 0.577 | 0.681 | 0.288 | 0.296 |
| Muscular/Athletic | 0.85 | 0.898 | 0.867 | 0.636 | 0.565 | 0.187 | 0.197 | |
| Pressures subscales: | Family | 1.00 | 0.886 | 0.911 | 0.682 | 0.729 | 0.274 | 0.225 |
| Peers | 0.60 | 0.923 | 0.933 | 0.750 | 0.778 | 0.314 | 0.275 | |
| Media | 0.89 | 0.970 | 0.974 | 0.891 | 0.905 | 0.277 | 0.255 | |
| LT-SATAQ-4 general scale | 0.88 | 0.915 | 0.914 | 0.335 | 0.330 | - | - | |
Note: ICC = intraclass correlation coefficient; * Mean value of Pearson correlations coefficients between items within the assigned subscale; ** Mean value of Pearson correlations coefficients between items in subscales other than their own; LT-SATAQ-4 general scale = the combined subscales of the Lithuanian version of the Sociocultural Attitudes Towards Appearance Questionnaire − 4.